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158 - How to Defeat Persia if They Invade You

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The Spartans and the Persians

Greeks advisors in general felt Xerxes was being way too flippant about the Spartans and they were like you just don't get it man. The battle is a referendum on whose approach to life and society is better, he says. "It's not just a battle of two types of weapons it's a battle oftwo types of mentalities"

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